"The Heart-Disease Handbook" is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to preventing, reversing and managing heart disease from one of the top heart doctors in the field today, Dr. Christopher Cannon. This book provides the latest information on surgical and non-surgical approaches as well as what guidelines to follow in regards to hotly debated treatment options like statins. For each condition and procedure, readers learn what to expect, and discover what to do to help themselves - and more importantly to prevent them getting to that stage in the first place. Colour pictures and diagrams make complex concepts understandable while checklists, self-assessments and appendices make the book a tool readers will reference for prevention, and cure.